In this post, I'd like to reflect on my travel around Turkey. I was there for 5 weeks and visited 8 different cities - Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, Kusadasi, Aydin, Antalya, Konya and Ankara. I ...
Is Turkish food healthy? Perhaps, the right question to ask should be whether the food that I had in Turkey was healthy and whether I made healthy choices. Truthfully, the same as everywhere ...
While Ankara is not rich in historic monuments like Istanbul, there are several sites that you can visit there. Undoubtedly, one of them is the monumental Ataturk Mausoleum, dedicated to the ...
Anitkabir or the Ataturk Mausoleum, dedicated to the Father of the Nation - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - is possibly the most important historic place in Ankara. Within the mausoleum complex, ...
Of all places that I visited in Turkey, perhaps, I could've skipped Ankara. Although, it made sense to stop there within the context of my travel. I was in Konya and wanted to go back to ...
I previously wrote about the Seljuk heritage in Konya and also about the fascinating Mevlana Museum. But there is also Ottoman Konya to consider, in addition to history before it became an ...
If you consider spending your summer holiday in Antalya where to stay and what to do may be the first thing that you will ask, before you start making arrangements. Indeed, every time when ...
After a short stop in Aydin, it was time for me to move to Antalya, the next destination during my travel across Turkey. I originally planned to go there directly from Kusadasi where I spent ...
After a week on the beach in Kusadasi, it was time for me to move to the next destination during my travel across Turkey, in July and August 2019. I originally planned to go directly to ...
The main reason for my travel to Turkey in summer 2019 was to spend several weeks on the beach. But, that wasn't the only reason. I also wanted to explore Ottoman heritage. I've really only ...